strike out
(START) — phrasal verb with strike /straɪk/ verb (struck, struck)Definition
› to start doing something new, independently of other people: After working for her father for ten years, she felt it was time to strike out on her own.Starting and beginningStarting again
(Definition of strike out (START) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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